00:00Leading your team out onto a field, especially in a big game when you know you're going to have a sellout crowd, that is quite a thrill for any pitcher.
00:09Anthony DiScafani on the hill tonight for the Giants, making start number 26, 11 and 6 on the year with a 3-3-8 ERA.
00:16127 strikeouts, 36 walks for the 6-foot, 195-pound right-hander who's 31 years, he's in his 8th year at the big league level.
00:24Trey Turner, the hitter, stepping in for the Dodgers.
00:27Base hit to right field on a two-strike pitch.
00:32So here is Max Muncy.
00:35Crawford hustles, gets one, and off the back and hits the runner, and it ricochets over to the screen along the side.
00:43Crawford had nobody to throw the ball to.
00:45Mookie Betts, 269, and in an injury-plagued year, he's got 19 home runs and 25 doubles.
00:54And a pop-up.
00:55Bell backing up.
00:57Foul ground.
00:59Got him on a 2-0 pitch.
01:01A hit and a walk in this inning for the Dodgers against DiScafani, and here's Corey Seager.
01:05Two balls, two strikes.
01:07Two on, two out.
01:08He struck him out!
01:10The inning is over.
01:12Slider got him.
01:13That was a great pitch.
01:15It'll be a bullpen game for the Dodgers, and Corey Kniebel, the first man to take it.
01:19He's had a few starts, and this is very comfortable in this starting position.
01:24Last time he started, which wasn't his last outing, but the one before, he faced the minimum.
01:29Got five outs, gave up a hit, but got a double play.
01:34Down the right field line, base hit.
01:36Mookie Betts, unlike most right fielders in this ballpark, was not way over in the right center.
01:43But the Dodgers align their outfit a little bit differently here.
01:46Kniebel's 2-2 pitch is a curve to get him swinging.
01:50One gone here in the first on a strikeout of Brandon Bell.
01:53Four straight curveballs to begin.
01:55Now fastball that he pops up.
01:58Here in the dugout, Muncie has room.
02:01And Bryant is out number two.
02:03Can't give up on a pop-up in San Francisco.
02:05The wind is going to do all kinds of stuff with it.
02:08That ball probably was going to be out of play, wind blowing out to right.
02:12He swings and grounds it to first.
02:14Backhanded by Muncie, steps on the bag, and the inning is over.
02:19No runs, one hit, one left, one, no score.
02:24Giants will take out number two, but Turner in scoring position with Mookie Betts as the hitter.
02:292-0 to Mookie Betts.
02:31The pitch is hit to right center field, sprinting over is Jastrzemski.
02:36He'll get there and make the catch.
02:38For out number three, huge moment, still very early in this game.
02:42Slater, who just homered yesterday, his tenth of the year, stands in against Vesea.
02:47Bases loaded, one out.
02:49That is a base hit!
02:51Di Sclafani will score rough over the third.
02:54On a two-strike count, he gets the big hit for the first run of the night.
02:59Well, I mean, that is just an 0-2 gift.
03:03He comes right at him with a fastball, and it is on a tee.
03:07And the hitter's Brandon Crawford, singled his first time.
03:10The 1-1.
03:12Fly ball, center field, Bellinger going back.
03:15He'll track it down, and that will end the inning.
03:18Giants come up with one run, two hits, leave three.
03:23Grotterall is the fourth pitcher already used by the Dodgers, and we're just starting the fourth inning.
03:29Swing and a ground ball right along the first base line.
03:31A fair ball!
03:32Headed down the right field line.
03:33It bounces off the side wall.
03:35It's barehanded then by Mookie Betts, who's got a great arm.
03:37The throw to second.
03:38He's off line!
03:39Sliding in head first to second with a double is Tyrone Estrada.
03:46Sharply hit grounder right past the first base bag.
03:49It hit that angled side wall that comes right out near the stands.
03:53And so it's up to Darren Roth, who has reached both times.
03:56Single in the first inning, walk in the third.
03:59Estrada in third with two gone.
04:01And Roth bounces it back to him.
04:02And that will do it for the Giants in the fourth.
04:06And once again, with two outs, they put a runner in scoring position.
04:10Here's the pitch.
04:11Ball four.
04:12Cozy takes a walk.
04:13Giants have two on with two outs.
04:15Slider, slider, slider.
04:16That's going to be it for Shane Green.
04:18It's a playoff game.
04:19Might as well be.
04:20So Justin Brule will face his hometown team for the first time.
04:25What a setting.
04:26Night for him.
04:26He may have a lot of family and friends in attendance.
04:28He's from Petaluma.
04:29And he comes down in a big spot here against Brandon Crawford.
04:32Here it comes.
04:34Off the end of the back to third.
04:36Turner's got it.
04:37And he'll backpedal to the back with a force out there.
04:40So the Giants leave two more on.
04:42They have stranded eight men on base in five innings.
04:46They're one away.
04:46Muncie still at first.
04:48Estrada also pulled in a bit.
04:49Double play depth.
04:50And there's a ground ball to short.
04:51Not hit hard.
04:52Crawford has it.
04:53The second one.
04:53And Estrada to first.
04:55Two.
04:56A double play.
04:58Tyrell Estrada stayed in there.
05:01He made the relay throw just as Muncie was about to plow into him and put it right on the bag.
05:08And Di Sclafatti has given the Giants six strong against the Dodgers.
05:14Hard hit.
05:15Diving stab at third by Turner.
05:17His low throw kicks off the glove of Muncie.
05:20And Evalon Gorilla will reach with two outs.
05:23You know, that's kind of a tough play for Muncie because throwing it hard, it would have been an easier type of bounce to try and make a catch-up if you're Muncie.
05:32But the slow speed came up.
05:35And those are tough.
05:36So I get steering rough to the play with the man on and two gone here in the sixth.
05:42Swatted to center.
05:43Bellinger.
05:45Looked like that bounced.
05:47And they're going to say that he caught it.
05:49Giants are asking them to take a look.
05:51Will to be enough to overturn it.
05:53So it is a hit for Darren Ruff.
05:56Swing and there's a high pop foul off the third base side.
05:59Turner, the third baseman, comes over.
06:01He's got room and he makes the catch.
06:04And Belt is gone on one pitch.
06:08Left center field on the run.
06:10Slater gets there.
06:12Nice play.
06:13A.J. Pollock was convinced, I'm sure, that that was going to be extra bases.
06:17Out in the direction of 399 in left center field.
06:21And Austin Slater made the play.
06:241-0 Giants.
06:28Crawford left center field.
06:30Hit well.
06:31That one is way back there.
06:32Off the wall.
06:33Taylor comes up throwing.
06:35Crawford with a double.
06:37It's a leadoff double in the eighth inning for Brandon Crawford.
06:411-2 pitch.
06:42Here it comes.
06:43Pestella on one hop to third.
06:46Over to his left to scoop it up.
06:47Justin Turner spins around and throws him out.
06:51He just robbed Lestella of a hit.
06:54One of the second time in the game that the Dodgers have gotten a runner as far as third base.
06:59Here's the pitch.
07:01It is hit hard to second.
07:03Estrada's got it.
07:03Coming home with the ball.
07:05Turner's caught in a rundown.
07:06Posey running him back.
07:07And Buster Posey's just going to keep running that way.
07:10He will tag both runners.
07:13And it's Seager who's going to be out now.
07:15Posey lunges for Seager.
07:17But Seager was the guy who was out.
07:20Turner was off the bag by a half step.
07:22And Posey had a chance to get the final out of the game.
07:26One more chance.
07:27And it belongs to Chris Taylor.
07:29Two on.
07:30Two out.
07:301-1.
07:31Taylor lines it into center field.
07:34It's down for a base hit.
07:36They've tied it down to their last breath.
07:38So Buehler is now at third base.
07:42Another 1-2 pitch.
07:44Turner serves it into center.
07:46This will get the job done.
07:47Buehler comes in to score on a sacrifice fly from Trey Turner.
07:51The Giants would have to get Buster Posey home if they're going to stay alive in this one.
07:552-1, 10th in.
07:56Crawford.
07:58Up the middle.
08:00Base hit.
08:01Buster's going to be waved.
08:03Taylor comes up throwing.
08:05Sweet.
08:05And Crawford goes to second on the throw.
08:09And now again another strikeout situation with a runner at third and less than two outs.
08:15To Crawford.
08:16He's going to go home.
08:17Posey's tag.
08:18And he's out.
08:20What a throw by Crawford.
08:21Tell you what.
08:22To have the guts to do that.
08:23Brandon Bell.
08:24A possible winning run at third.
08:26Buster trying to bring his old friend Bell home here.
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